Boxing mechanism for ice-cream-cone machines.



F.A.BIIUCI IIIAII. BOXING MECHANISM FOR ICE CREAM GONE M'GHINES. APPLICATION FILED IUNE 20.1911. IIENEWED SEPT. 20. 1918. i

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FA.BRUCKMAN. BXING MECH'ANISNI FOR ICE CREAM GONE MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED IUNE 20. 19H. RENEWED SEPT. 28| 19H3.

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INVENTOR F. A. BHUCKMAN.

BOXING MECHANISM FUR ICE CREAM GONE MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED IuNIf 2o. 1911. RENEwED SEPT. 2a. ma.

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FREDERICK LB'BUCKMAN, or ronTLANn, onneoiv.

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To all whom t may concern.' l

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. BRUon MAN, 'a citizen ofl the United States, "resid-` ing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxing Mechanism for Ice-Cream-Cone Machines, of which'the following is a specififill cation.

My invention relates to certam new and useful :improvements 1n mechanism for putting the baked product of pastry molding and baking machines (especially ice cream cone makmg machines) into boxes or cartons and the' invention is especially de signed for use in'` connection with cone making machines of the Broekman type, see Letters Patent No..1,071,027, issued August 26, 1913.' I y' In machines of the Bruckman type, the cones after leaving the trimming mechanism are conveyed onto a table where they are usually taken by the attendent in sticks and inserted into' the boxes. The present invention vprimarily has for its object to eliminate handling of the cones by the attendant and to enable the cones to be' put into boxes.without being touched. In this way, I am enabled to manufacture ice cream cones without handling the same at `any stage of the proceedings, so by use of the Bruckman machine with the automatic boxer of -the present application, the cones will not be touchedV by the operators hand during any stage of their manufacture.

In theBruckman machin-es, batterv isv placed into a reservoir and is automatically fed to the molding and baking devices from which the cones are automatically discharged and pass into a trimming device by which they are trimmed before` finally leaving the machine and being conveyed onto the receiving table.

My device is designed to take the cones as they come onv the receiving table and afterhavingbeen made up in sticks of predetermined lengths (each stick containing a definite num'berof cones), the sticks are put into the proper cell of the box or carton, so that all the operator need do is to seal the box after it has been filled.

In carrying out my invention, I provide the receiving table with a deyice for raising and lowering the discharge end oi" the same to line up with the several tiers ci. cells in the boxes, so that after one tier has been Specification of Letters Patent. 'application mea :rune zo, 1917, serial'No. nass?.

Vveyer` loop member. .l F1 4 1s a diagrammatic detall section `on the boxes beingcarried by a transverse conveyer valong the table with the open ends of the boxes 'adjacent to the discharge end 'of thel receiving table on which the cones are put ashthey leave the trimming mechanism.

The invention `also includes those novel features of construction,` combination and arrangement of patjall of which will beA Patenteaiiay'a "1919. Renewed september es, 191s serial no. asalta. y fined, the n.51@- wiube 'Self-adjusted! ina; position whereby the next set of coneswill p L be put into theproper tier above and so' on, j

first fully' described' and then be specically pointed out in the appended claims, refer-'5 I ence being had to in s, in which:

Vthe acomlianying drawsubstantially A,the

l gure l isa top plan view.. of inven" .f T 'Fig 3 is a detail perspective view of one` of theslide members whlch carries the con y the line' fi-lion Fig. 2, looking from left to right in Fig. 2, and showing a 'mechanism vfor advancing the boxes step by step to the into proper position with relation cone receiving table. Fig. 5-is a longitudinal section,jlarge ly diagrammatic, showing a means for se' a,

rately delivering cones before vstacking the parts in the advance position.

them, the parts being in the retracted .posiff i..

Fig. 7 is a detail cross section on the line i -7-7 of Fig. e. Y

In the drawings in which' like numerals Y of reference indicate like parts in all of the figures, 1 represents a portion of the frame off the ice cream cone machine to which 'my invention is applied and 2 indicates the offtake chute from the trimmer.

In using my present invention, I prefer to stack the cones in sticks by means of an oscillating arm 5 operated by a rod 6 from a suitable oscillating part 'of the cone machine, the arm 5 carrying a finger 7 which is designed to engage the cone as it drops into the chute 2 and push-it into the preceding cone; whereby a stick of cones is formed on the table.

8 is the step at the bottom of the chute 2 from which .the cones pass onto the hinged table 9, the table 9 being hinged at 8 and spaced from the step' 3 as at 4 to allow the trimmings to fall through. The table 9 is providedwith four grooves 11, one corresponding to each section of the chute .2, the chute 2 being divided into sections by partitions 12, so that each set of cones may fall located, the ratchet having a predetermined number of teeth or notches 16 (four in the presen-t case), the purpose of which is to engage with the pawl 22 o n the rocking arm 21 and w-ith the check pawl 23 on the support 13.

17 isa wrist pin on the ratchet disk 15 which is connected with the table 9 by a connecting rod 18 that is pivoted at 19 to a bracket 20 behind the front or free end of the table 9, so that as the ratchet disk 15 is turned to bring the wrist pin 17 from its lowest position to its highest position, the

' table 9 will be raised lfrom the dotted line position in Fig. 2 to the full line position and will rest at each of the positions indicated in Fig. 2 and also at an intermediate position so as to aline the table with the respective cells 71 of the box or carton 7 0.-

Thera'tchet lever 21 isoperated by a connecting rod 24 which joins it with a rocking lever 25 that is fulcrumed at 26 to a base support 27 and is itself operated through a.

. connecting rod 28 by a Icrank 29 on a shaft 30 that has continuous rotary motion imparted to it by some moving -part of the cone making machine (not shown).

The blocks .31 on opposite sides of the j table 9 are-connected together by a cross bar 32 which has a'bracket 33, by means-of which it is linked 4as at 34 with the lever 25, v,the link 34 being pivotally connected at 35 'with the lever 25 and bracket 33 respectively.

' are front blocks slidable on the T-bars 10 and to which at 37 the connecting :bars or 'rods'l138 are firmly secured, the rods 38 conhaving connecting cross bars 47, see Figs. 1

and 3, the arms 43 having extensions 45 to A which the connecting rods 46 are pivoted. The blocks 36 are also provided with arms 43 whose extensions 45 are connected with they connecting rods 4 6 so that the front and back members 43 maybe operated together to raise or loweig the same.

41 designate stop pins on the blocks 31 and 42 designate stop pins on'the block 36 lto limit the movements of the arms 43 downwardly.

The arms 43 on the front blocks 36 are connected together by an undulated cross bar 48, the bar 48 being looped at 49, see Fig. 1,

so as to straddle the edges 73 of the box when the arms 43 are pushing the cone sticks into the box cells.

50 is the transverse table along which the boxes are fed by the conveyer 55. The conveyer 55 is an endless chain having pushers 56 which project upwardly above the plane of the table 50 and are designed to shove the. boxes along.

The table 56 is slotted longitudinally at 51 for the purpose of permitting the conveyer toproject up into working relation to the boxes.

52 indicates brackets for supporting the shaft 53 on which the conveyer sprocket 54 is mounted. The sprocket 54 carries a ratchet 57 having notches 58 arranged at definite intervals, whereby the proper advance of the conveyer in step b step movement can be obtained through t e medium of a pawl 60 that is mounted on a pawl carrier 59, the carrier 59 having a peripheral groove 61 in which the pull cable 62 lies, the cable 62 having one end fastened in any suitable way to the pawl carrier 59. The other end of the Acable 62- is. connected by. a yieldable connection 63 with the long arm of a bell crank 64, the latter being fulcrumed at 65 to a post 69 and having its movement in one direction limited by a stop 66, the movement in that direction being effected'by a spring 7 5 located within the pawl carrier 59 and secured at one end to the awl carrier and at the other end to one of the brackets 52 or the cable 62 may be extended downwardly, as indicatedin Fig. 4, andrcounterweighted as at 76 or both the spring and counterweight structures may be employed, as desired.

The bell crank 64 is moved to pull the cable 62 downwardly to advance the box conveyer, by a connecting rod 67 which joins the lbell crank 64 with fthe wrist pin 17, the connection between the bell crank and rod 67 having a pin and slot connection 68 so that the bell crank 64 will be operated only while the pin 17 is passed from the position shown in Fig. 2 down to the bottom limit of its movement as the advance of the boxes is made only once for every three tiers of Y cells filled.

The boxes which are used for containing the cones have theiropen flaps 72 directed toward the table 9 and the boxes contain cells 71 to keep the adjacent sticks-of cones separated. v In operation, as soon 'as a stick ofcones has been formedadjacent'to the .receiving ends of the table 9, the crank 29 will be 'n to throw the lever 25 from the'y full line position of Fig. 2 toward the dot and dash line position. On` commencement of this movement, the blocks 31 are advanced but owing to the slots 40, the blocks 36 remain f stationary until the cap `screw 39 reaches the forward end of the slot 40. During this movement, the arms 43 will be rocked downpush it into the box cell While the rearward arm 43 will move the right hand stick over the position of the left hand stick, after which on the recessional movement of the lever 25, the arms 43 are raised teclear the front stick and returned to the full line` position, during which time another stick of cones is being made up at the right in Fig. 2.

The slot permits the rear rod 43 to be lowered and upon continuing the forward movement of the slide 31 vthe forward rod .43 is lowered. Upon return movement of the rod 24, from the dot and dash line position shown in Fig 2, wrist pin 17 will pass below the center 14 and the weight of the table 9 together with the tension of thev spring' 75 and the action of the weight 7 6 will insure the movement of the table to its lowermost limit.

`While the right' hand stick of cones is being made up, the attendant has sufficient time to inspect the left hand stick in Fig. 2 and enable him to replace a damaged or imperfect cone before the stick is pushed' vit is lnecessary to fill irstthe right hand four tiers, see Fig. 4, then the left hand two` of the advanced box and the right hand two of the following box, after which the last four sets .of the following boxV are moved into position to be filled, the advancing occur- `ring .as indicated by a, al, a2, a3, (diagrammatically) in Fig. 4.

In order that theboxes may haveA sufcient space between them, for the pushers 56 to enter, it is necessary to give the conveyer 55- a step by step movement, consisting of two equal'ste'ps of definite degree,

al 052, 'and then a-third step of a slightlygreater degree, a3, so that the three steps` or movements to each revolution of the gear 54 will not be equal. This is accomplished by spacing the ratchet recessesv 58 in such manner that fon two of the movements, the

dog 60 will have a certain amount of lost .for the third movement.

I n Figs. 5 and 6 I have Ishowna way in which the/cones may be separately delivered 'long enough to enable the attendant to replace imperfect cones before nesting the cones into sticks and putting the sticks intothe boxes. I do this by providing a rod `77, having fingers 78 that project through a slot 7 9 inthe trough way'80, and push the cones separately into the stick. 77 is elevated andlowered to raise and retract the fingers by levers 81 on'slides 82 that are connected together-at 83 and move on a slide way 84. The rod is raised and re# ciprocated lengthwise by a connecting rod 85, which is joined to the lever 5 and to the arm 86 of one of the levers 81. When this device is used, I can` dispense with the exposure'oftlie stick near the box and as soonas the stick is made up, put it directly into the box.- To do this the slide 36 only is used and operating lever 25 is linked at 87 to the arm 45. 1

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, itis thought the complete construction, the manner of operation andthe advanta es of the invention will be clear to. those skil ed in the yart to which it appe'rtains.A

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a cone receiv- 1 ing table, means for forming the cones into sticks on the table, a transverse box-conveyer, means for advancing the conveyer to aline the boxes with the receiving table, and mechanism for advancing the sticks along the table and into the boxes.

2. The combination with an adjustable cone receiving table, a relatively fiXed-as-tolocation box conveyer, means for advancing said conveyer to aline the boxes with the receiving table, table elevating mechanism for alining the exit end of the table with the re- `spective cells of the boxes, and a device for pushing the cones from the table into vthe box. y

" A3. The combination with a cone receiving table, means for advancing cones along the table from the entrant end toward the exit end in open orjseparated formation, and for ysubsequently nesting the cones vinto sticks,

a box conveyer, means for advancing the conveyer to aline the boxes 'with'the receiving table, VmechanismV forfmoving the sticks ofi' the table into the bom-.Q

4. The combination with a cone receiving table on to which the cones are deliveredand nested 1n st1cks, a box conveyer means for advancing said conveyer to aline the boxes with the table, table elevating mechanism for alining the table with the box cells, a

means 4forladvancing cones in separated for mation along the table to the place where they are nested. l

5. The combination with a cone making machine, and of an apparatus for receiving the cones from the machme and boxing the same, said apparatus comprising a receivln 'table onto which the cones are discharge from thel making machine, a conveying clevice to advance the cones along the table in open or separated formatlon'and'then nest-` ing thel same into a st1ck, a box conveyer -passing in juxtaposition to the table, and means for pushing the stick of cones o the` table into the box.

6. The combination with 4a -cone making machine,-and of an apparatus forl receiving the cones from the machine and boxing the same, said apparatus comprising a vreceiving table on to which the cones are discharged from the making machine, `a conveying device to advance the cones along the table in open or separated formation andthen nesting the same into a .stick, 'a box conveyer passing in juxtaposition to the table, and

means for pushing the stick of cones of the table into the box and means for raising and lowering a portion of the tableto aline the sticks with the respective .cells or compartments. of the boxes.

-7 A The combination with a cone receiving table, ymeans for nesting the conesinto I Y sticks on the table,'said table being hinged at its entrant end, a crank and pitman de- -vic'econnected with the exit end of thetable for raising and lowerlng the same, a trans- 4 verse box supporting table, a' ratchet and pa wl mechanism for operating said nesting table raising and lowering device to aline the exit end ofl the nesting table with the desired box cell, and a reciprocating device on the nesting table for advancing :rf-stick of cones along the nesting table into the box. 8. The combination with a cone receiving table, means for nesting the cones into L sticks on the table, said table beinghinged a at itsentrant'end, a crank and pitman dedesired'box cell, a reciprocating device on v the nesting table for advancing a stick of cones along the nesting table into the box, and a box advancing mechanism for advancing the boxes along the box supporting table.

9. The combination with a cone receiving table, means for nesting the cones into sticks on the table, said table being hinged at its entrant end, a crank and pitman device connected with the exit end of the table for raising and lowering the same, a transverse box supporting table, a ratchet and pawl mechanism for operating said nesting table raising and lowering mechanism to aline the exit end of the nesting table with the desired box cell, a reciprocating device j' on the nesting table for advancing a stick of cones along the nesting table into the box,

a box advancing mechanism for advancing the boxes along the box supporting table, said mechanism being actuated through the action of said ratchet and pawl device.

` 10. In a mechanism of the class described, a nesting/table onto which the cones are delivered y\i:'rom the cone making machine, means for nesting the cones into sticks on the table, means for advancing a predetermined stick of'cones from the entrant tx)- ward the exit end of the table, a box table, means for advancing the boxes along the box table to aline with `the nesting table, l

means for raising and lowering the nesting table to aline with the tiers of cells of the boxes, said cone stick advancing means having provlsion for moving the sticks of cones mto the boxes Vsubstant1al1y as shown and described.

11. In a mechanism oi the class described, a nesting table onto which the cones are delivered from the cone making machine, means for nesting the cones into sticks on the table, means for advancing a predetermined stick of cones from the entrant toward the exit end of the table, a box table,

means for advancing the boxes along the box table 'to aline with the nesting table, means for raising and lowering the nesting table to aline withthe tiers ofcells of the boxes, said cone stick advancing means having provision for` moving-the sticks of cones into the boxes, a pawl and ratchet device for op erating the box advancing mechanism,` a

crank and lever device for operating the cone stick advancing mechanism, and a pawl and ratchet device for operating the nesting table adjusting mechanism.v

12. The combination with a cone receiving table onto which the cones are delivered and nested into sticks, a box conveyer, means advancing said conveyer to aline the boxes with the table, and means for advancing the conesin separated formation along the table to 'the place where they are nested.

13. The combination with a cone receiving table onto which the cones are delivered and nested onto sticks, a box conveyer, means advancing said -conveyer to aline the boxes with the table, means for advancing the cones in separated formation along the table to the place where they are nested, and means for moving the stick of cones off the table into the boxes.

FREDERICK A. BRUCKMAN. 

